#PotW Literary London annual lecture 23 July
Bernardine Evaristo: ‘London, Londinium, Londolo: The Endless Possibilities of Re-Imagining London’ My fiction, verse fiction and poetry are strongly rooted in various imaginings of London, from the...
View Article#PotW Language, Culture and Society in Russian/English Studies: 5th...
Organised and sponsored by the Moscow Institute of Foreign Languages, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Academy of Linguistics and The Journal of Philology. The conference is devoted to the...
View ArticleNew Project on Old Books: Some Challenges
In a major piece of research facilitation, IES Associate Fellow Dr Karen Attar is editing the third edition of the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and Republic of...
View ArticleSAS joins in the national recognition of a milestone in history
Salvation Army makes doughnuts on the front line The centenary of the First World War is described on the British Government’s website as “a significant milestone in world history”. On August 4 it was...
View Article#PotW: Forbidden Access: Censoring Books and Archives
A collaboration between the Institute of English Studies, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Senate House Library. ‘Forbidden Access’ is a multidisciplinary conference exploring how published...
View Article#PotW: Clinical Governance and Leadership – 27 November 2014
Clinical governance and leadership. Invented in the UK, exported to NZ. Developments that can contribute to NHS England This lecture by Professor Robin Gauld will report the late-1990s in response to...
View Article#PotW: Nelson Mandela: Myth & Reality – 5 December
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is convening a seminar to discuss the complexities of Mandela’s ideology, political relationship with other liberation movements within South African society, his...
View ArticlePick of the week: Brazilian Diaries with Michael Palin and Alan Charlton – 5 Feb
The John Brooks Memorial Lecture Brazilian Diaries Michael Palin, CBE, FRGS in conversation with Alan Charlton CMG CVO When: Thursday 5 February 2015 18.00 – 19.30 Where: The Beveridge Hall Ground...
View Article#PotW: John Coffin Memorial Reading: a roundtable panel with three New and...
This free public event is a conversation/public reading featuring 3 leading New/Next Generation poets (a major poetry promotion, run by the Poetry Book Society). Ian Duhig (1994), Patience Agbabi...
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The School of Advanced Study have decided to close down this blog and replace it with a new, improved blog called Talking Humanities. This new blog will offer a discussion point for the study of the...
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